Cuilaranel

The stars are veiled. Something stirs in the East. A sleepless malice. The eye of the enemy is moving.

He is here.

The horses are restless and the men are quiet

It is the road to the Dimholt, the door under the mountain.

Have you learned nothing of the stubbornness of dwarves?

One that is cursed. Long ago the Men of the mountain swore an oath to the last King of Gondor, to come to his aid, to fight. But when the time came, when Gondor's need was dire, they fled, vanishing into the darkness of the mountain. And so Isildur cursed them, never to rest until they had fulfilled their oath.

"The way is shut. It was made by those who are dead, and the dead keep it. The way is shut."

Seventeen, Eighteen

Thirty-three, thirty-four.

A diversion.

What about side-by-side with a friend?



Not that many...as always...

Has anyone heard of the Vinyl Cafe? I heard it's a Canadian thing and I wondered if that was true.
It's so amazing. I wish I could tell stories like that.

I love Unfinished Tales! My favorite one right now is actually the first one concerning Tuor. I still don't know why as it was short and...well...unfinished. Currently I'm on the tale of Aldarion and his beloved, cold, wife.
Tolkien's works are more like poetry to me than anything else. More like what poetry should be. That's why I like reading his work. It always sound so much more beautiful than anything else I've ever read.

I just watched Thirteen last night. What a disturbing movie. It was like the book Go Ask Alice. I hope none of you can say "That's my life on the screen." but I think I know people like that girl in the movie. I kept screaming at the mother to get her girl some therapy but naturally she wasn't listening. Hell, I think we all need therapy.

Anyway tonight hopefully I'll watch Once Upon a Time in Mexico.

Can't believe the Oscar nominations!!

I'm rooting for Return of the King for best picture. Peter Jackson best directory. Johnny Depp best actor, Keisha Castle-Hughes best actress, Renee Zelleweger best supporting actress and Ken Watanabe for best supporting actor.

That'd be my dream list right there. What a night that would be. But I'll bet Charlize Theron wins best actress, Mystic River for best picture, Peter Jackson for best director, Naomi Watts for supporting actress, Ben Kingsley for best actor, and Tim Robbins for supporting actor.

That's probably what will happen. Then again they DID exclude Cold Mountain, which is what I had predicted they would not at all do. I had thought they had forgotten that such a movie as Whale Rider existed.
What a fantastic movie that was. The soundtrack is just amazing.

I just received the LOTR Fellowship brooch from my parents as a Christmas gift. I know it's January but they said it would take a while to ship out to Michigan (where we were visiting relatives at the time) and hence, it only arrived now. The thing is that we checked where it was sent out from and it's only a 10 minute drive from where we are. That's ironic.

Part Four (of God knows how many) : The Hardcore fans

Disclaimer!: I'm only going to put one thing I don't like about it and one I do. I'll try to make this a slightly balanced review. I don't care if you think I'm doing this because I'm full of myself and think I could do any better. I'm just curious to see how many people agree/disagree with me and why. It's called a discussion.

Some of the movies are new, some old. Sorry I haven't seen the following movies that I want to see:

Cold Mountain
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Freaky Friday

That's all I can think of for the moment.
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Kingdom of Heaven


Release Date: Summer, 2005 (wide)


Cast: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Liam Neeson (Godfrey of Ibelin), David Thewlis (Hospitaller); other cast not announced yet.


Premise: Set during the 12th century in the holy city of Jerusalem, a young peasant blacksmith (Bloom) becomes a knight so that he may help repel the Crusaders who took control of the city in 1099. Meanwhile, the young knight also falls in love with the city's beautiful princess (Green)... (Neeson plays the blacksmith's father; Thewlis plays a priest.)



Stepford Wives


Release Date: June 11th, 2004 (wide)


Cast: Nicole Kidman (Joanna Eberhart), Matthew Broderick (Walter Eberhart), Bette Midler (Bobbie Markowe), Christopher Walken (Dale Coba), Roger Bart (Roger Bannister), Glenn Close (Dr. Emily Francher), Faith Hill (Sarah Sunderson), Jon Lovitz (Dave Markowe), Matt Malloy (Herb Sunderson), Mike White, Lorri Bagley (Charmaine Van Sant), Colleen Dunn (Marianne Stevens), Tom Riis Farrell (Stan Peters), Jason Kravitz, Lisa Masters (Carol Wainwright), Kate Shindle (Beth Peters), Robert Stanton (Ted Van Sant), Christopher Evan Welch (Ed Wainwright)


Premise: Joanna (Kidman) and her husband (Broderick) move to the beautiful upper-class suburb of Stepford, where she soon starts to suspect something is strange and artificial about her new female neighbors. The wives living in the houses around them all seem to be too perfect, with bland, character-less personalities. Everyone that is, except her new friend Bobbie (Midler), who as a cranky, sarcastic, non-exercising alcoholic still has some semblance of personality and independence. As Joanna and Bobbie investigate their neighbors further, they discover that there is indeed something artificial about them, something... robotic, the result of the husbands banding together to replace their human wives with cyborg copies who are subservient, sexually compliant and devoid of any distinguishing character traits. Will Joanna and Bobbie be the next ones replaced by perfect robotic clones? (Roger Bart plays a gay confidante of Kidman's character who ends up getting "straightened out"; Walken and Close play a couple; Lovitz plays Midler's husband)


X3- X-Men 3


Release Date: May 5th, 2006 (tentative) (wide)


Cast: Hugh Jackman (in talks) (Logan, AKA Wolverine), Patrick Stewart (in talks) (Professor Charles Xavier), Shawn Ashmore (Bobby Drake, AKA Iceman), Daniel Cudmore (Piotr Rasputin, AKA Colossus), Alan Cumming (Kurt Wagner, AKA Nightcrawler), Famke Janssen (Dr. Jean Grey), James Marsden (Scott Summers, AKA Cyclops), Sir Ian McKellen (in talks) (Erik Lensherr, AKA Magneto), Anna Paquin (Rogue), Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (Mystique); other cast not announced or confirmed as signed yet.


Premise: (6/1/03) There is much that is currently unknown about this movie's premise, but here's what is known. This movie will follow the continuing adventures of the superpowered group, the X-Men, led by Professor Xavier, and based at his school for gifted students, as they try to foster good will for mutants like themselves, in a world where some people are born with extraordinary powers, and many ordinary humans fear them for it. One likely subplot to be addressed in this movie is the status of Dr. Jean Grey, who experienced something strange in the second movie, something to do with something called Phoenix... (I know a lot more about Phoenix than that, but I'm trying not to spoil the second movie.) Another possible element that may be introduced in this third movie is the idea of the Sentinels, giant mutant-hunting robots constructed to capture and control the "mutant menace" forever.


All of this information is courtesy of Yahoo! Movies and the pictures all came from Yahoo! except the one of Orlando.

When is the LA permiere of RotK?

I talked to my manager today. She told me that this Spanish guy probably doesn't realize just how young I am. She also laughed and added, "It's lucky your dad hasn't come by with his shotgun. That's what my dad would have done." To which my dad replied darkly, when I told him later, "I don't own one."

Oh and this will probably be the last time I update before my vacation tomorrow. So good bye for now!